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Architecture & Infrastructure New images linked in orange. All Comments are by Addison Godel except where otherwise indicated. AG = Addison Godel (agodel@ummagurau.com) |
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Architecture & Infrastructure New images linked in orange. All Comments are by Addison Godel except where otherwise indicated. AG = Addison Godel (agodel@ummagurau.com) |
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Image - P-G's Title | Comments |
| Barracks 1 (GT) - Contractor's wooden barracks. [Oka River] | ||
| Bridge 1 (SH) - Drawbridge on the Vytegra River | ||
| Bridge 2 (JA) - A bridge over the Ekaterininskoe inlet in Shlisselburg, [Russian Empire] | There is some confusion over whether the wires seen here are for electrical current or telegraph signal. Shlisselburg is by no means remote by Russian standards, so it might well have been equipped with either or both. Anyone more versed in the history of Russian electrification care to comment? | |
| Church 1 (AG) - Details of the Milan Cathedral | I find it wonderfully coincidental that just as I was putting the finishing touches on Church 1, I received an email from Shaden which led me to Church 2. | |
| Church 2 (SH) - Details of the Milan Cathedral | ||
| Cliff Villages 1 (AG) - Dagestan. Shamil's village. | I never knew Russia had anything like this. Very cool. Want to know who Shamil is? Check out the Notes. | |
| Factory 1 (GT) - Glass factory in Borzhom | GT: "This has to be my favorite one I've done so far. The effect of the smoke is just amazing." | |
| Farm 1 (WZ) - A dairy in Dagomys. | ||
| Gardens 1 (SH) - <none available> | ||
| House 1 (AG) - Lastochkino Gnezdo | I'm not really sure that this is a house, but it reminds me a little of some fond memories of an aunt's home in Knoxville, so I'll just assume it is. Either way, this one had some really ugly damage to the plates, but it still amazes me that these things survived all this time and only got nicked up this much. | |
| House 2 (JA) - Site of former palace of Empress Catherine the Great. City of Shlisselburg, [Russian Empire] | ||
| Palace 1 (AG) - Kharitonov's House in the city of Ekaterinburg |
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| Railroad 1 (OK) - Railroad bridge over the Shuia River | If you're curious as to the purpose of those triangle things on the bridge, see the Notes. |
| Religious Building 1 (SH) - <none available> | I'm going to follow the Library's referring to these things as "religious buildings" rather than "churches," goodness knows what cultural detail I might be unaware of. |
| Religious Building 2 (AG) - The main entrance into the Shakh-i Zindeh mosque. Samarkand | |
| Religious Building 3 (GT) - The dome of the Gur-Emir Mosque from the west (cracked). Samarkand | See the Notes section for the story behind the Gur-Emir Mosque. GT: "There are a few yellow and blue artifacts throughout the image, but the most interesting one is a finger print on the middle of the right side of the photo." |
| Religious Building 4 (GT) - Dome of the Gur-Emir mosque. Samarkand | |
| Ruins 1 (AG) - Stone gate and the Uzvarian fortress | Very cool shot, if you ask me. I wonder if any of the ruins are even standing as ruins today... |
| Ruins 2 (AG) - An arch before the entrance to the Timotis-Ubanskii Monastery | Unfortunately, a number of the ruin photographs are themselves in ruins, as evidenced by the horrible coloring here. |
| Water Management 1 (AG) - The main sluice of the Tsarevna Reservoir. | I'm informed that a sluice is essentially a safety valve for a reservoir - a side channel to keep it from overflowing into unexpected places when it rains. Think of it like the little drain-hole near the top of your sink that keeps it from overflowing. |
| Water Management 2 (GT) - The dam's slender abutment and part of the finished sill. [Beloomut] | GT: "There are some color artifacts spread throughout the image, the most obvious are the the streaks of yellow and blue in the sky. Also, some of the people in the background had moved between shots." |
| Water Management 3 (GT) - Abutment for the dam, and house, belonging to the government. [Kuzminskoe] | The colors in Graeme's composite always seemed very weird to me; helpfully, Matti Keltanen has sent along an alternate version. Thanks! |
| Yurts 1 (JA) - <none available> | Tom Topham writes: "Just to let you know, the distinctive national dress indicates this is a Turkmen, so almost definitely the photo was in Turkmenistan." |
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People New images linked in orange. All Comments are by Addison Godel except where otherwise indicated. AG = Addison Godel (agodel@ummagurau.com) |
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Image - P-G's Title | Comments |
| Armenian Women 1 (AG) - Armenian women in holiday attire. [Artvin] | This one had some really ugly plate damage; the colors come out fakey and there's real loss in the background - note the weird blue figure over in the shade. | |
| Crowd 1 (AG) - On the Registan. Samarkand | With some tweaking, I used this to make the main icon for this section up at my Art page. | |
| Georgian Women 1 (SH) - Georgian Women | ||
| Girl 1 (WZ) - <not known> | ||
| Man 1 (AG) - Man in uniform, seated on chair, outside | ||
| Man 2 (SH) - <none available> | ||
| Man 3 (JA) - Water pipe. Samarkand. | JA: "[This] is one I like to call "The Mighty Bongsman of Samarkand. I did quite a bit to it, as far as cleaning up the negs and even doing extra color balancing on small areas around the edges where there were exposure problems. It's still not perfect, but it's definitely my favorite of the five I've done so far. I was a little nervous about cropping out bad areas, and fixing the blotches on the negatives [...] All mine have ended up a bit more rectangular than the originals." | |
| Man 4 (CF) - Kush-Beggi (Minister of the Interior). Bukhara | ||
| Man 5 (JM) - Andrei Petrov Kalganov. Former master in the plant. Seventy-two years old, has worked at the plant for fifty-five years. He was fortunate to present bread and salt to His Imperial Majesty, the Sovereign Emperor Nicholas II. [Zlatoust] | ||
| Prokudin-Gorskii 1 (AG) - Study. In the forest near the Kivach waterfall. [Suna River] | The LOC actually has a decent supply of P-G self-portraits; this was one of the ones they hadn't already composited. | |
| Prokudin-Gorskii 2 (AG) - Study near the Kivach waterfall. [Suna River] | I love this one. | |
| Scientists 1 (AG) - Observing a solar eclipse on January 1, 1907 near the Cherniaevo Station in the Tian-Shan mountains above the Saliuktin mines. Golodnaia Steppe | The first time I colored this image I wasn't paying much attention and thought it was some sort of artillery demonstration. Some horrible plate damage here, a real shame. Either way, I like the bleakness of it for some reason. | |
| Shepherd 1 (AG) - Shepherd. Samarkand | Paul Gavrilovic: "Samarkand is an ancient city in Central Asia, in today's Uzbekistan. It was established over 2000 years ago and was one of the largest cities on the Great Silk Road connecting China and the Eastern Roman Empire in Constantinople." | |
| Woman 1 (OK) - Araucaria. In Tsar's Park, Dagomys |
It's not surprising that this image is from a royal garden of some sort; araucaria (the pipe-cleaner-looking trees) are native only to South America and Australasia. Paul Gavrilovic has more and better information: "[Dagomys is] a resort town on the black sea in Georgia, known today as Sochi. A popular resort in imperial times as well as for Soviet citizens. The climate is subtropical, kind of like the coast of the Carolinas in the U.S. Which explains the Araucaria trees. The garden, although here royal conservatory, is typical of the area--palm trees and other tropical plants are found throughout the towns on the Black Sea, from Odessa to Yalta (Crimea) to Sukhumi and Gagry (Georgia). In fact, the Krasnodar region, just north of the Caucasus, as well as Georgia, are tea-growing areas, which shows how mild the climate there is." |
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| Woman 2 (SH) - A study of a girl | ||
| Woman 3 (JH) - In Italy | JH: "This one is titled "V Italii" and, I assume, was taken in Italy. I used the Gimp under Linux for this. [...] The green seems overexposed... I've heard that other early experiments of this type had trouble with the "blue" plate being underexposed. Also, I suspect his film was non-linear in a different way for each plate. If his plates are consistent, a filter could be constructed that would fix things automatically." | |
| Woman 4 (AG) - Peasant woman woman breaking flax. Perm Province |
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Places, Creatures, & Things New images linked in orange. AG = Addison Godel (agodel@ummagurau.com) |
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Image - P-G's Title |
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| Camels 1 (AG) - At the Saliuktin mines. On the outskirts of Samarkand | Really badly damaged picture... really I suppose it ought to go in People, but I wanted to get this category going a little more, so hey. | |
| Cattle 1 (HS) - <not known> | HS: "In a funny sort of way, I like the fact that if you flip between the RGB channels, you can see the cows move - like a small three frame movie." | |
| Crozier 1 (SH) - The crozier of Saint Dimitrii Rostovskii the Miracle Maker. Museum inventory number 788. In the Rostov museum. Rostov Velikii | ||
| Column 1 (OK) - <none available> | The Library archivists suggest, tentatively, "Religious candlesticks?" | |
| Flowers 1 (OK) - <not known> | ||
| Grave 1 (SH)- Saint Dalmat's grave in the Assumption. | ||
| Museum 1 (AG) - A skeleton of large-horned deer in the museum of the city of Ekaterinburg. | I think this one looked better as a black-and-white...color isn't good for spookiness. | |
| Museum 2 (JR) - In the Borodino Museum. Borodino. | John's tutorial (see links on the index page) discusses the work done on this picture in great detail and includes a number of interesting side observation. | |
| Palace Interior 1 (JR) - In the country palace of the Bukhara Emir. Bukhara. | "Picked it mainly because it had so few scratches etc. on it, but then after I got going on it, "wow, nice place!" :) | |
| River 1 (JA) - <none available> | ||
| Shrine 1 (SH) - Shrine of the Saintly Evfrosiniia. The Venerable Monastery. [Suzdal] | ||
| Statues 1 (AG) - Two carved wooden statues of bearded men with a haloes above their heads, one holds a set of keys, the other a book. | ||
| Statues 2 (AG) - Seventeenth-century plashchanitsa [shroud with the image of Christ], in the middle, a wooden carved image of Christ Our Savior lying in the grave. On the sides, carved images of Saint John the Theologian and Saint John the Precursor. Museum inventory numbers 5683 and 190. In the Rostov Museum. Rostov Velikii | ||
| Sunset 1 (AG) - Sunset in Gagry. | This was a real pain to color correctly - no really obvious reference points on some of the plates. | |
| Swords 1 (AG) - Weapons cabinet in the Arsenal Museum of the Zlatoust plant | My mind still can't process this many identical swords in one place. My friend Justin points out the sad, hindsight-gleaned fact that a few years later it was these same, proudly displayed swords that would prove painfully useless in modern warfare. |
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